After receiving comments and several private e-mails, I pared down my link list…a LOT. Some of you will notice that only a few remain, and it looks like I probably deleted a few that I want to put back up (sorry Problogger!). Looking at other blogs, the list is still too long and needs to be cut back some more.
I propose a contest. We all like sales, shows, and contests, right?
I will be deleting links to blogs that don’t leave a comment to this post. Some will stay just by virtue that I love your blog, but if you read on, you will see a bonus to commenting and such. There are some rules, of course:
- No gold-farming, pay-to-level, or questionable sites will get a link.
- It must be updated at least weekly. If I go there and the last post was December…well, get on the ball.
- Follow rules 1 & 2.
IF you write a review on your blog of my blog, or especially your favorite post on my blog, then I will assign you a higher rank than the others and will see about displaying the list according to rank.
The deadline is Monday morning when I come in to work around 6:30am.
EDIT: I don’t want anyone to think this is being harsh. I loved having my link list, but it was the longest thing on my site. This excellent comment by Josh was what pushed me off my butt to do some house-cleaning:
Your page shouldn’t be 2/3 links, 1/3 content at any viewing “angle”.
While horizontally, this will still be the case, it won’t have the amount of content to scroll through and detract from my writing.
TY for the compliment on content, Jikk. I will have to give you a Karma point on the forums for that one. That’s a reminder for everyone to join the forums. It’s not just for Buttered Monkeys. It’s a WoW resource.
Great idea, one that I’ve thought of before, and I think will get impletmented this time. Thanks.
David, I’ll hate to see you go, so I’ll add you to the new page I’ll set up later. Thanks for chiming in and participating.
Ok, let me start by saying I am not here to bring the mood down, just to provide a secondary view.
First, do this… Go to your front page, close your eyes. When you open your eyes back up, what is the first thing your eyes move to? For me, its the links. Now, if you want people to focus on the links first, then you are doing the right thing. If you want them to focus on the content, then you might reconsider.
Another thing to consider, where are most people “coming into” the site? If the front page is where most people go, then test with that. If it is your archived pages, then test with that.
On a technical note, your images are getting cut off by the edge of the link divs on the right side. If you want me to provide a screenshot, shoot me an email 🙂 Also, with the 2 line links, you might want to provide a bullet of some sort, or maybe an indent to the second line of the link. Just something to let the user know it is a 2 line link.
Hey, man. You know I always value your opinion, Aeig. You are right about that close your eyes assessment.
At this time, about 75% of my traffic comes via search engine, and about the same percentage of them are going directly to posts that are about the topic they looked for.
I’m sending you an e-mail now, but I’m not sure I can take care of things blindly at work.
I edited my blog post to reflect some more infrormation on the boy. Thanks Gitr for a great idea!
Gitr – I don’t mind if you take me off your links, I’m not really a WoW focused blog anyway, more EQ2=)
Damn – good thing I got a free minute to check your blog today 😉
Out here.
Tomas, not to show favorites, but you were on the A-list anyway. We go waaaaaay back to my blogspot .com days. You were one of my inspirations.
damn – that made my day.
Thanks G-man